Political uncertainty and cost stickiness: evidence from prefecture-city official turnover in China

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of local political uncertainty on the asymmetric cost behavior (i.e. cost stickiness) for listed firms in China. In this study, the authors manually collect the turnover data of prefecture-city officials as a measure of exogenous fluctuations in...

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Main Authors: Zheyao Pan, Guangli Zhang, Huixuan Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2022-06-01
Series:China Accounting and Finance Review
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Online Access:https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/CAFR-02-2022-0007/full/html